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The tract is oval, tapering off in the lumber region, 

 and becoming attenuated, though not junctioning with the 

 oil gland, and remaining free from other pterylae. 



Pt. Capitis — Beginning at the anterior nares, it is 

 forked along the culmen, and passes over the 

 frontal parietal and occipital region, bulgin^ cTown- 

 wards, immediately over the apertures of the ears, 

 and later joining the pteryla colli dorsalis, ear- 

 coverts breaking from their follicles. 



Pt. Colli Dorsalis. This tract blends with the pt. 

 spinalis and pt. capitis. 



Pt. Caudalis. — Ten rectrices in B and C, with the ten 

 coverts well developed, two-thirds the length of 

 the former, while in A ther© distinctly appears to 

 be twelve rectrices, with ten upper coverts just 

 showing their follicles. Uropygium not tufted. 



Pt. Femoralis — Made up of two sets, a strong outer 

 series and a short feeble inner series at the an- 

 terior end. This inner series does not yet show 

 in specimen A (fig. 1). The posterior portion is 

 abnormally long, indicating the habitat as wet and 

 scrubby. This tract is free from any other. 



Pt. Cruralis. — The tract does not encompass the leg. 

 In B the whole length of the inner surface is' bare, 

 broken by an oblique line of a single row of well- 

 developed yet unbvirst follicles. There are a few 

 additional feathers in specimen C, the upper part 

 of the tibial area of the leg being bare. 



Pt. Huineralis. — Well developed. 



Pt. Alans. — Metacarpo'-digitalis 10, subequal to A, B, 

 C, D, the 9th and 10th being a little shorter; veins 

 not emarginated as in the contours, the 11th re- 

 niex wanting. 



Cubitals 10, 1-8 being subequal, the 9th being much 

 smaller, the lOth still much reduced, and scarcely distin- 

 guishable from its covert. There is an 11th quill that does 

 not indicate whether it is a cubital or a covert, either in 

 jDosition or its form. 



While there is no sign of primary coverts in the left 



